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Bacon, caramelized onions and sauteed mushrooms are among my favorite foods and when I saw a spinach salad on The Pioneer Woman that contained all three it, immediately made it to my meal plan. This salad is just packed with flavour! Not allowing any flavour to go to waste this salad starts by cooking the bacon in a pan and then setting it aside, reserving some of the bacon grease. The remaining bacon grease is then used to caramelize the onions and finally to saute the mushrooms. After cooking everything in that one pan it is just covered with those caramelized brown bits of flavour and they are recovered by making the dressing like a simple pan sauce where the pan is deglazed with the dressing's vinegar and then the reserved bacon grease is used as the dressing's oil component. As if this salad were not already flavourful enough, I could not resist adding some mellow creamy blue cheese. This salad would make a great side dish or you can easily add a hard boiled egg and turn it into a light meal.

Directions:
1. Cover the eggs in water, bring to a boil, turn off the heat, cover and let sit for 7 minutes.
2. Transfer the eggs to cold water and let cool enough to hold.
3. Remove the shells from the eggs and slice.
4. Meanwhile, cook the bacon in a pan and set aside reserving 2 tablespoons of bacon grease.
5. Caramelize the onions in the remaining bacon grease and set aside.
6. Caramelize the mushrooms in the remaining bacon grease and set aside.
7. Add the vinegar to the pan and deglaze it.
8. Add the reserved bacon grease, sugar, mustard, garlic and season with salt and pepper and remove from heat.
9. Assemble salad and toss with dressing.

This has to be the most decadent salad ever and I love it! However, I can't help but wonder how my next blood test would turn out if I ate this the night before.... heart attack warning?! Oh Yeah! It would be so worth it!

Just stumbled onto your website today, when I was looking for a recipe for a BLT sandwich. Thanks to you I've just made a good BLT sandwich and this salad!!! I'm usually a mess in the kitchen and I'm so happy that I managed to make something that tasted good. I will definitely look for more of your recipes :)

Just stumbled onto your website today, when I was looking for a recipe for a BLT sandwich. Thanks to you I've just made a good BLT sandwich and this salad!!! I'm usually a mess in the kitchen and I'm so happy that I managed to make something that tasted good. I will definitely look for more of your recipes :)

I bookmarked your salad from Tastespotting and decided to try it out tonight. I have to say, this is definitely restaurant quality! I loved it. BF opted out of the dressing (he's a die hard French guy) and no onions for him either...though I made mine exactly. It was delicious. Paired it with a shrimp cocktail. Great dinner, thanks!

Spinach Salad is one of my alltime favourite salads. There was restaurant that I used to go to years ago at the Eaton Centre in T.O called Mr. Greenjeans and I would always order thier spinach salad. I don't think that restaurant exist anymore :( but just looking at this salad reminded me of that place. I will definately be making this salad. thanks for sharing.

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I came to realize that my meals were boring and that I had been eating the same few dishes over and over again for years. It was time for a change! I now spend my free time searching for, creating and trying tasty new recipes in my closet sized kitchen.